Deanna Saylor Human Resources Management for Public and Nonprofit Organizations Y505 Exam One 5/25/2010 1. In your own words‚ what is a psychological contract? Why is this concept important to studying human resources? Explain. Give an example of a psychological contract you had with an employer and what‚ if anything‚ happened when it was broken. A psychological contract is what the employee expects to receive from the employer and vice versa. For example‚ in my job‚ I expect that my employer
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GHANA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT & PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION GRADUATE SCHOOL OF gOVERNANCE & lEADERSHIP MASTERS IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION FALL 2014 SYLLABUS Instructor: Agyemang Frimpong‚ PhD Email: afrimpong@gimpa.edu.gh Phone: Ext. 1041 Office Location: School of Governance & Leadership‚ Room 8 Office Hours: Tues/Wed(11am-2pm) & By Appointments
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What is Public Administration and the Role of the Public Administrator Cynthia A. Fortune California State University Northridge MPA 610 September 20‚ 2012 Dr. Suzanne Beaumaster WHAT IS PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND THE ROLE OF THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR? Public Administration is a function of government‚ a government in action‚ be it a local agency‚ city‚ county‚ state or federal government. It is the process by which non-elected government employees implement rules‚ regulations‚ laws‚ policies
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Research Master in Public Administration and Organizational Science Master of Science in Public Administration and Organizational Science (MSc) Policy research? PhD? Find out by exploring core issues in public administration and organizational science. Combine theory with training in methods‚ and practice‚ working under prominent researchers. Combine work on the theory of public administration‚ policy‚ organizations‚ and public management with in-depth training in research methods‚ philosophy
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Public administration plays a major role in the functioning of our community. It helps with the implementation of government policy to imply and prepare civil servants for working in the public service. Although public administration is a major source for the betterment of the community. Trying to grasp the idea of how public administration work‚ can be difficult because there are many fields that make up public administration. When people ask what public administration is? “It is a complex interdisciplinary
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THEORIES AND DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Like any other field of social sciences‚ the development of Public Administration as a study and also‚ as a practice is a response to evolving social contexts. As it is an eclectic field of study‚ it has adapted its key concepts and theories predominant in that period of time from the other fields of study. Thus‚ one can look at its development by identifying key concepts of economic‚ sociological and other studies that have contributed to how
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in predicting future trends of the business (Predictive Value) or confirming or correcting any past predictions they have made (Confirmatory Value). Same piece of information which assists users in confirming their past predictions may also be helpful in forming future forecasts. Example: A company discloses an increase in Earnings Per Share (EPS) from $5 to $6 since the last reporting period. The information is relevant to investors as it may assist them in confirming their past predictions regarding
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structure of management and administration related to the Holocaust. The authors’ intent was to show the impact of state power‚ authority‚ and advances in the modern age. Adams and Balfour‚ were keen in presenting the influential implementation of technical-rational practice as it relates to administrative evil. Indeed‚ public administration tactics and infrastructure of the Nazis to overthrow all others in the acts of killing were a leading example of an advance administration compared to others in history
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the profession of public administration. Later‚ in 2005‚ the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) classified equity as the fourth pillar of public administration‚ alongside the well-established pillars of economy‚ efficiency‚ and effectiveness (Norman-Major‚ 2011). Already accustomed to the established pillars of public administration‚ the incorporation of equity has presented challenges for public administrators. Norman-Major (2011) argues that the primary reasons public administrators
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discretion and administrative law. Bureaucratic discretion factors heavily into the administrative process‚ as public administrators try to put into effect what Congress makes (politically) through broad and sometimes vague mandates. Agencies are granted considerable discretion to take Congressional mandates and funds and put them into practice so as to produce a specific outcome. How public sector employees do this varies from agency to agency; but the number of variables involved in programmatic design
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